Think about it....

 

“It ain’t over until it’s over” Yogi Berra

Have a super weekend.

 

So, we have often heard that ‘getting old is not for sissies.”

We seem to get so caught up in our day-to-day personal lives that we often ‘forget’ friends, coworkers, neighbors etc. that we don’t see or hear from on a regular basis.

I recently realized that a lot of my friends had died or were not in a position to converse about everyday events due to their mental or physical issues of some kind.

Now, there are ‘friends’ and then there are ‘friends’. I’m talking about people in your life that you ate with, drank with, talked to a somewhat regular basis but who had just sort of drifted out of your life for one reason or another.

I am not talking about someone you went to high school or college with 25 or 50 years ago that you haven’t seen or talked with since the day you graduated. I mean how much can you find out about someone in a few hours when you haven’t seen them in that many years?

Not much.

So, I reached out to several friends that I had not kept up with in a number of years and vowed to contact them every few weeks instead of every few years.

They told me they were the same place as their friends had passed on and they didn’t have anyone to cuss and discuss with on important issues.

Such as ‘what should we do about the asteroid headed towards us?’ Or ‘bananas seem to ripen sooner than they did several years ago, any idea of why?

“My doctor says I should stop drinking coffee.”

“My doctor says I should drink more coffee.”

Important topics such as these. I strongly suggest you make contact on a frequent basis with those you really care about. I know we all get busy and time slips away very quickly but it is certainly better to be safe than sorry.

Safe is knowing about the person you are calling from time to time, even if it’s just to say ‘hello’ and ask if they need anything.

Sorry is when the conversation goes something like this:

Ring,ring..

[woman answers]  “Hello?”

“Hi, this is Peary Perry, can I speak to my old friend John?”

{Long pause} “Oh, I guess you didn’t know. John died about a year ago.”

Now you are stuck in a rather awkward position since “old John” really wasn’t that much of a good friend if you didn’t know he had died.

So, you mumble a few words of sympathy and try to gracefully hang up. Vowing to never let this happen again.

Do it now, call someone, text someone, write a letter to someone.

What can it hurt?

Remember “old age comes quietly”

See you next week